Tag Archives: Job Growth

The Week: Opinion- Jeff Spross: ‘President Obama’s Middle-Out Economics is Good, Bottom-Up Economics is Better’

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Ederik Schneider

  Source: The Week: Opinion- Jeff Spross: Middle-Out Economics is Good, Bottom-Up Economics is Better I have several questions that I would ask Jeff Spross. Which is why can’t you do both? Why can’t you have policies that improve the middle … Continue reading →

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The New Democrat Network: Corey Cantor: ‘Comparing The Economic Records of The Last Democratic and Republican Presidents’

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Erik Schneider

“As the country gets ready to pick a new President in 2016, we felt it would be interesting to look at the recent economic performance of the Democratic and Republican parties when they controlled the White House. While there were … Continue reading →

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Human Events: John Stossel: ‘The Economy Needs no Conductor’

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The FreeState There’s been this endless debate in America in the last few years about what creates economic and job growth. Is it the private sector or public sector. Does government actually create any jobs, well the answer to that … Continue reading →

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The New York Times: Paul Krugman: ‘Inequality is a Drag’

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:New York Times– left-wing columnist Paul Krugman. Source:The New Democrat “For more than three decades, almost everyone who matters in American politics has agreed that higher taxes on the rich and increased aid to the poor have hurt economic growth. … Continue reading →

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Associated Press: Ed Donahue: US Employers Add 209K Jobs, Unemployment Rate 6.2%

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat Two-hundred-thousand jobs in a month even if it is not a high as the previous month of two-hundred-eighty-thousand jobs is a very good number. And when you have a slight uptick in unemployment from 6.1% to 6.2% … Continue reading →

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The Future of Freedom Foundation: Opinion: Laurence M. Vance: The Transportation Fiscal Cliff: How to Fund American Infrastructure

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

American Highway The Future of Freedom Foundation: Opinion: Laurence M. Vance: The Transportation Fiscal Cliff Just to respond to Laurence Vance’s libertarian argument against the Federal Highway System. The reason President Dwight Eisenhower (no one’s Socialist) and Democrats as well … Continue reading →

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Campaign For America’s Future: Isaiah Poole: Transportation Crisis: Republicans Looking For Hostages, Not Solutions

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat Campaign For America’s Future: Opinion: Isaiah Poole: Transportation Crisis: Republicans Looking For Hostages, Not Solutions One of the advantages of being able to talk about solutions and issues and offer ideas to solve those issues when you … Continue reading →

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Thom Hartmann: Dr. Ravi Batra: A Revolution is Coming!

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat Just an editor’s note: I watched about seventeen-minutes of this video and didn’t hear a damn thing about any revolution.  Actually seventeen minutes before I started writing about this video and continued to watch it while I … Continue reading →

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Slate Magazine: Jay Porter: ‘A Small Business Owners Case For Raising the Minimum Wage’

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:Slate Magazine– a pro-minimum wage rally. Source:The New Democrat “Nine or ten dollars an hour? Twelve? Or all the way to $15? For much of the country, significant minimum wage hikes are coming—at least in the areas where they haven’t … Continue reading →

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Hoover Institution: Edward Paul Lazear: How to Energize a Lackluster Recovery

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  The U.S. income tax is now the biggest book ever written in the history of the world, at least as far as I know, standing at over one-million pages.  How would you like that for a book … Continue reading →

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